Articles by Spencer Chase

JBS was the target of a cyber security attack over the weekend affecting its North American and Australian operations.

The nation’s largest beef producer group outlined its top near-term policy goals in a letter to lawmakers Tuesday that calls for reauthorization of the mandatory livestock price reporting system with at least one new provision to help producers with marketplace leverage.

A leading ag youth organization has a new chief staffer, the leader of rural outreach for the Democratic National Committee takes a new job, and more in this week's Farm Hands.

The Department of Agriculture will not seek to overturn a court ruling ordering the nation’s hog processing facilities to operate at slower line speeds.

Scott Stump is set to assume the leadership of the National FFA Organization and Foundation next month, the groups jointly announced Wednesday.

The nation’s pork producers are asking the Department of Agriculture to appeal a ruling preventing a new regulatory regime for pork processing plants from going into effect nationwide.

The U.S. wing of JBS, one of the so-called “big four” beef packers has opted to part ways with the nation’s largest beef industry trade association.

The National FFA Organization plans to bring members and supporters back to an in-person gathering in October that will feature many of the functions of past conventions.

A recent closed-door meeting of beef producers may have yielded the rarest of all things in the industry: unity.

Jewel Bronaugh was confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote, officially making her the first woman of color to serve as USDA’s deputy secretary.